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How do you make iced tea?

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June 25, 2025, 08:13 PM
parabellum
How do you make iced tea?
Is that near Detroit?
June 25, 2025, 08:59 PM
jaaron11
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Is that near Detroit?
They are remarkably similar.


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June 28, 2025, 08:07 AM
parabellum
I bought some down-home. Luzianne Iced Tea

This takes me back.
July 07, 2025, 03:15 PM
parabellum
I settled on a simple and quite standard recipe. I'm making it a half-gallon at a time to keep it fresh.

  • Two Luzianne Family Size Iced Tea bags

  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar

  • 1/8 teaspoon baking soda

  • Four cups of water for brewing, then the equivalent of four more cups of water in the form of ice cubes, for eight cups total


    Bring four cups of water to a boil in a saucepan, turn off the heat. Steep the two teabags for four minutes. Remove the teabags and refrain from squeezing them at removal.

    Add the baking soda, then add the sugar and give the mixture a stir. Wait at least two minutes to allow the sugar to dissolve and give the tea a stir again to make sure the sugar is fully dissolved.

    Pour the hot tea over ice cubes in a half-gallon pitcher, adding tap water as needed to bring the volume up to measure and give it a stir. The ice will melt in no time and the tea will be cold and ready to drink then, but I put it in the fridge for a while first.

    The baking soda is a neat trick and is undetectable by appearance or taste.

    Dissolving granulated sugar in the hot tea allows bypassing the step of making a simple syrup.

    A half a cup of sugar barely makes this tea sweet, but it's the way my wife the super-taster likes it. I bring my glass of tea to the desired level of sweetness with Splenda.

    Perfection
    • July 07, 2025, 03:21 PM
    konata88
    What does the baking soda do?



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    July 07, 2025, 03:23 PM
    parabellum
    Prevents the tea from having a bitter edge, and extends the freshness of the tea beyond the accepted 48 hours max in the fridge, by at least a day.
    July 07, 2025, 03:25 PM
    konata88
    Interesting. Thanks. Never knew that.



    "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy
    "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book
    July 07, 2025, 04:00 PM
    YellowJacket
    I did hear my mama this weekend say she uses Tetley tea bags now.


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